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Signature Event
Saturday, October 7, 2023
4:00pm
In a discussion in conjunction with his Library exhibition A Survey of Elemental Gratitude, an arresting collection of photographs of Kansas’ Flint Hi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
6:30pm
Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Homer Plessy—a man of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent who was nevertheless considered black under Louisiana law—boarded...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
8:30pm
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Soul of a People: Writing America's Story...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 3, 2009
8:30pm
Related events:
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
8:30pm
Related events:
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story...